Recruitment Officer

Tameside Council; Tameside; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 17,000; Part time

Job summary

Tameside Council is seeking a Recruitment Officer to provide a professional recruitment and onboarding service. The role supports managers and candidates throughout the recruitment journey, from application to appointment, and involves administering adverts, pre-employment checks, onboarding, and record-keeping.

We are looking for a highly organised, customer-focused individual with strong communication skills who can advise managers and candidates to ensure efficient processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in recruitment, HR, or administrative role advantageous.
• Strong organisational and communication skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to prioritise in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage recruitment administration activities, including adverts and pre-employment checks.
• Coordinate onboarding processes and maintain accurate employee records.
• Provide guidance to managers and candidates to ensure efficient recruitment processes.

Job description

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade D SCP 7 £15,909 - SCP 10 £16,688 (Actual salary/Part time)

Hours Per Week: 21hours

Base Location: Tameside One

Assessment Date: 30th September 2026

The Role

We are looking for a highly organised, customer-focused Recruitment Officer to provide a professional recruitment and onboarding service. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting managers and candidates throughout the recruitment journey, ensuring a positive experience from application through to appointment.

As part of our Recruitment team, you will manage a range of recruitment administration activities, including preparing and uploading of adverts, carrying out pre-employment checks, coordinating onboarding processes, and maintaining accurate employee records. You will also provide advice and guidance to managers and candidates, helping to ensure recruitment processes are delivered efficiently and in line with best practice.

About You

We are seeking a committed individual with excellent organisational and communication skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. Experience of working in a recruitment, HR, or administrative role would be advantageous.

In return, you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference by helping us attract and appoint talented people who deliver vital services to our communities while contributing to the continuous improvement of our recruitment processes and systems.

About Us

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager Michelle Moir on 0161 342 2556 or [e-mail]

Supporting Documents

Recruitment officer job description and person specification